The Portable, Extensible Toolkit for Scientific Computation (PETSc) provides a framework for development of computational science codes. Although scalability and high performance are crucial for scientific applications, the usability often turns upon other software factors, such as modular design, and extensibility. We will discuss these issues in the context of PETSc development. Moreover, we will present examples of PDE solvers developed in PETSc with advanced capabilities, such as unstructured meshes, multi-grid, and parallel sparse direct solvers.

http://www.tacc.utexas.edu/user-services/training/

In this one-day class, users will learn about the scientific visualization and data analysis resources available at TACC, including remote visualization on Ranger, Spur, and Longhorn. A significant portion of the class will involve hands-on interaction with the systems, and users are encouraged to bring data for use in the class (sample data will be provided as well).

http://www.tacc.utexas.edu/user-services/training/

Training for users who are new to TeraGrid will be provided on Friday, February 5, from 1-3pm Eastern (12-2pm Central, 10am-noon Pacific).

The session will be delivered using ReadyTalk web-based teleconferencing, and include hands-on opportunities. The following topics will be covered:

• Portal Overview
• TeraGrid Knowledge Base
• Accessing Resources
• File Transfers
• Ticket System
• Softenv & Modules
• Security
• Next Steps

If you are interested in participating, please send email to training@teragrid.org by close of business on Wednesday, before the session. We will send out email to respondents with instructions on how to join the telecon. You will need to have your TeraGrid portal account information available to fully participate in the session.

Note that this is a free session; there is no charge for ReadyTalk connections for participants. More information about this tool is available online at www.readytalk.com.

http://www.tacc.utexas.edu/user-services/training/

The Modeling Agency offers three data mining courses with distinct objectives. The courses are designed to be attended independently, or as a progressive series. While the three levels are staged as a progression, they should not be viewed simply as "introductory, intermediate and advanced."

http://www.the-modeling-agency.com/training/series.html

Workshop on Algorithms and Computation (WALCOM) is intended to provide an international forum for researchers working in the areas of algorithms and computation.

http://www.buet.ac.bd/cse/walcom2010/

MuCoCoS 2010 is aiming to bring together researchers, developers, practitioners, and users of multi-core computing systems.

http://www.par.univie.ac.at/~pllana/mucocos10/

The objectives of this workshop are to consider information security issues in a holistic and systemic approach, putting the individual at the core of the question; point out stakes, challenges and issues related to a global approach for information security and reliability in order to develop an inclusive information society; analyze and propose innovative concepts, methods and solutions to insure a high level of information security for safety of people, the protection of organizations’ assets and critical information infrastructures, when failure is not an option; present and discuss emerging know how and standards that will contribute to minimize the informational risk and bring it under control.

http://www.ares-conference.eu/conf/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=44

Unix/Linux foundational skills are essential for researchers in areas of High Performance Computing. These skills can be directly applied to resources at the Texas Advanced Computing Center and in any Unix environment. This class is intended for the beginner and intermediate user wishing to gain more experience in the command line environment. The lecture will emphasize common strategies used for interacting with clusters and HPC resource.

http://www.tacc.utexas.edu/user-services/training/

Workshop will be held in Jaipur, India

http://acat2010.cern.ch/

Parallel Computing on Ranger and Lonestar covers the architecture, user environment and proper use of Ranger, the Sun Constellation Linux Cluster and Lonestar, the Dell Linux Cluster. This class should be of particular interest to computational scientists interested in developing and porting codes for this system.

http://www.tacc.utexas.edu/user-services/training/

TACC instructors will present various topics related to improving code performance on Ranger via the use of code instrumentation and profiling of MPI applications. Users will also receive instruction on the use of remote visualization software to visualize data sets generated on this resource.

Attendees are assumed to be familiar with the basics of submitting and running jobs on Ranger and Spur and are encouraged to bring their own code and data sets. [Details]

http://www.tacc.utexas.edu/user-services/training/

The 2010 Oil and Gas High Performance Computing Workshop will be the fifth workshop in this series and the third hosted by the Ken Kennedy Institute for Information Technology at Rice University. The main objective for this series of workshops is to provide a venue focusing on specific trends, needs and requirements from oil & gas industry users of scientific computing and HPC; as well as foster interaction with information technology industry, academic research communities and educators working on solutions to challenges faced by the oil & gas industry. Each workshop will focus on theme(s) and the 2010 workshop will be focused on two main topics: (1) application scaling for massive parallelism and (2) training and workforce needs and development.

http://og-hpc.org/Rice2010/

The workshop will focus on High-Performance Computing education and training including CPU technologies, accelerators, networking, storage, software middleware and various applications. The workshop will also cover advanced topics such as MPI offloads, networking optimizations and will feature presenters from the Swiss Supercomputing Centre, Simula Research Laboratory, HPC Advisory Council professionals as well as technologists from various Independent Software Vendors and OEMs. Hands-on training will be incorporated within the workshop agenda to allow participants to actually configure and test high-performance clusters. The workshop will bring together system managers, researchers, developers, computational scientists, students and industry affiliates for cross-training and to discuss recent HPC developments and future advancements.

http://www.hpcadvisorycouncil.com/events/switzerland_workshop/

This seminar provides an example-based methodology for designing operational, technical and systems architecture views and products that are consistent with the guidelines of the DoDArchitecture Framework (DoDAF). You will receive step-by-step compliance guidelines for ensuring your technologies, systems and architectures meet the technical and architectural requirements imposed by the DoD. Learn practical techniques for creating and evaluating required architecture products. Learn how to save time following successful strategies while avoiding costly pitfalls when meeting DoD requirements.

http://ttcus.com/view-seminar.cfm?id=103

This half-day lecture is part of a series of short lectures presented by TACC this spring for foundational skills.Basic C programming skills are essential for researchers in areas of High Performance Computing. These skills can be directly applied to resources at the Texas Advanced Computing Center and in any Unix environment. This class is intended for the beginner and intermediate user wishing to gain more experience in C programming.

http://www.tacc.utexas.edu/user-services/training/

C++ is often characterized in the Scientific Community as being too bloated, slow, and complicated to be useful. In fact, quite the opposite is true. A number of high-powered, modern, extensible numerical software libraries now utilize C++; having some knowledge of the language is therefore beneficial now and for the foreseeable future. In this combined lecture and lab session, we will discuss basics of C++ usage including I/O, vectors, objects, and their relation to the same concepts in C. Special attention will be devoted to important topics like memory management, references vs. pointers, and the STL, which we feel are essential to effective use of the language by beginners, but which are typically relegated to more advanced courses.

http://www.tacc.utexas.edu/user-services/training/classes/c-plus-programming-basics/

The International Workshop on Virtualization Performance: Analysis, Characterization and Tools (VPACT) is a selective venue for reporting and discussing new initial results in the measurement, characterization, analysis, and modeling of the performance of virtualized computer systems, including the tools to support such work. VPACT is interested in results at all scales, including multicore/manycore processors, mobile devices, desktops, servers, data centers, clusters, parallel supercomputers, and distributed virtualized computing environments.

http://www.hpcwire.com/events/?month=3&year=2010

The course covers profiling and debugging technologies available at TACC for performance optimization and debugging of serial and parallel codes. The course contains instructions for beginners and advanced users, along with a lab with demos and examples.

The course consists of two parts. The first part covers debugging techniques, starting from the basic use of the GNU debugger (GDB) and finishing with an example of use of the parallel debugger DDT. The second part of the course addresses optimization and scalability. This part contains instructions on general optimization strategies, the use of timers, the GNU profiler (GPROF), and the MPIp package for scalability analysis. An example of profiling with an integrated package like HPCToolkit or Tau is also given.

Prerequisites: A basic understanding of the UNIX/Linux command line environment is required. The lectures assume that you are familiar with either the C or the Fortran programming language.

http://www.tacc.utexas.edu/user-services/training/

Users will receive instructions on the use of remote visualization software to visualize data sets generated on systems such as Ranger. A review of the scientific visualization process will precede an overview of the visualization software available to TACC users, including the parallel visualization software VisIt and ParaView. Labs will provide students with the opportunity to prepare data sets to be visualized using these applications. In addition, attendees will be introduced to the Longhorn visualization portal.

http://www.tacc.utexas.edu/user-services/training/classes/introduction-to-scientific-visualization-on-longhorn/

The 17th Reconfigurable Architectures Workshop (RAW 2010) will be held in Atlanta, USA in April 2010. RAW 2010 is associated with the 24th Annual International Parallel & Distributed Processing Symposium (IPDPS 2010) and is sponsored by the IEEE Computer Society's Technical Committee on Parallel Processing. The workshop is one of the major meetings for researchers and practitioners to present ideas, results, and on-going research on both theoretical and practical advances in Reconfigurable Computing.

http://www.ece.lsu.edu/vaidy/raw/

The next e-IRG workshop will be organized under the Spanish Presidency of the European Union in Barcelona by BSC , Barcelona Supercomputing Center.

http://www.e-irg.eu/open-e-irg-workshop-barcelona.html

Fortran programming skills are essential for researchers in areas of High Performance Computing. These skills can be directly applied to resources at the Texas Advanced Computing Center and in any Unix environment. The class is intended for the intermediate user wishing to gain more experience in Fortran90/95 programming. Basic knowledge of Fortran or another mid/high-level programming language is a prerequisite.

http://www.tacc.utexas.edu/user-services/training/

Workshop on Scalable Global Parallel File Systems Tiled Storage in Stuttgart, Germany.

https://corga.hlrs.de/corga/corga-hwws-2010/index.jsp

Training for users who are new to TeraGrid will be provided on Friday, April 30, from 1-3pm Eastern (12-2pm Central, 10am-noon Pacific).

The session will be delivered using ReadyTalk web-based teleconferencing, and include hands-on opportunities. The following topics will be covered:

• Portal Overview
• TeraGrid Knowledge Base
• Accessing Resources
• File Transfers
• Ticket System
• Softenv & Modules
• Security
• Next Steps

If you are interested in participating, please send email to training@teragrid.org by close of business on Wednesday, before the session. We will send out email to respondents with instructions on how to join the telecon. You will need to have your TeraGrid portal account information available to fully participate in the session.

Note that this is a free session; there is no charge for ReadyTalk connections for participants. More information about this tool is available online at www.readytalk.com.

The National Resource for Biomedical Supercomputing (www.nrbsc.org) at the Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center (www.psc.edu) and Carnegie Mellon University (www.cmu.edu) will host a 'Hands-On' Workshop on Computational Biophysics using NAMD and VMD on May 10-14, 2010. www.nrbsc.org/education/workshops/namd/

Applications are due by March 15, 2010 and selected participants will be notified by March 22, 2010. To apply online, please visit: www.nrbsc.org/education/workshops/register.php

http://www.nrbsc.org/education/workshops/register.php

Clusters, Clouds, and Grids are three different computational paradigms with the intent or potential to support High Performance Computing (HPC). Resilience 2010 is the follow-on workshop to the successful Resilience 2009 held with HPDC in Munich, Germany, and the earlier Resilience 2008 held in conjunction with CCGrid in Lyon, France.

http://xcr.cenit.latech.edu/resilience2010/

In this workshop, students will participate in lectures, labs, and discussions about the architecture and use of Ranger and its supporting infrastructure. This class will be of particular interest to computational scientists interested in developing codes for and porting codes to Ranger.

http://www.tacc.utexas.edu/user-services/training/classes/introduction-to-parallel-computing-on-ranger-at-cornell-university/

WHGA2010 is the International Conference for High Performance Computing, Grid Computing, Cloud Computing, Green Computing, Pervasive Computig, Networking, and Storage.

http://ag3.hpcc.jp/IWHGA2010/

The workshop will focus on HPC productivity, and advanced HPC topics and futures, and will bring together system managers, researchers, developers, computational scientists and industry affiliates to discuss recent developments and future advancements in High-Performance Computing.

http://www.hpcadvisorycouncil.com/events/european_workshop/index.php

HPCS (High Performance Computing Symposium) is Canada’s foremost HPC conference – a multidisciplinary conference where computational researchers from all disciplines in industry and academia, computer scientists, and vendors exchange new tools, techniques and interesting results in and for HPC computational research.

http://www.hpcs2010.org/

HotPar '10 will bring together researchers and practitioners doing innovative work in the area of parallel computing.

http://www.usenix.org/event/hotpar10/

This training workshop will focus on how to use "MATLAB on the TeraGrid," a 512-core NSF-funded experimental computing resource located at Cornell. Lectures, labs, and discussions will cover the system architecture and how to use The MathWorks’ Parallel Computing Toolbox™ to run parallel and distributed tasks locally and on remote resources. Workshop participants will learn how to install and use client software and the Parallel Computing Toolbox to launch MATLAB jobs from a local desktop and run them on the remote cluster at Cornell. Workshop instructors will assist users in code development and porting.

http://www.cac.cornell.edu/about/news/100505.aspx

The ScienceCloud workshop will focus on the use of cloud-based technologies to meet new compute intensive and data intensive scientific challenges that are not well served by the current supercomputers, grids or commercial clouds.

http://dsl.cs.uchicago.edu/ScienceCloud2010/

This workshop solicits original papers on performance evaluation methods, tools, and case studies explicitly focusing on the challenges of large scale, such as decentralization, predictable performance, reliability, and scalability. It aims to bring together system designers and researchers involved with the modeling and performance evaluation of large-scale systems and applications.

http://www.lsap2010.org/

The Third International Workshop on Data Intensive Distributed Computing (DIDC'10) will be held in conjunction with the 19th International Symposium on High Performance Distributed Computing (HPDC'10), in Chicago, IL.

http://www.cct.lsu.edu/~kosar/didc10

VTDC brings together researchers in academia and industry who are involved in research, development and planning activities involving the use of virtualization in the context of distributed systems, where the opportunities and challenges with respect to the management of such virtualized systems is of interest to the ICAC community at large.

http://www.grid-appliance.org/wiki/index.php/VTDC10

This workshop focuses on the complex issues, such as adapting to heterogeneity and being dynamic in space and time, that arise in developing, deploying, and executing large-scale distributed computing applications in science, engineering, medicine, business, economics, education, and other disciplines.

http://sites.google.com/site/clade2010/

Get ready for a week of digital art and design that will change the way you look at popular arts and media. Workshop instructor Scott Flanders is a freelance illustrator and artist specializing in entertainment art and media including commercial illustration, comic books and conceptual design for film and video games, Scott brings an exciting and contemporary professional approach to digital art and a deep knowledge rooted in the fundamentals of fine art training that will leave participants inspired to stretch their creative muscles and push the boundaries of visual expression! Students will be exposed to many of the basic techniques and common approaches to digital art and design, including the familiar skills of drawing, painting and composition as synthesized through the digital medium, but also silhouette and contour design, using abstraction in development, and using photographic reference and the basics of image sampling. Presented by Scott Flanders, Scott Flanders Art Course open to middle and high school students.

http://education.sdsc.edu/teachertech/index.php?module=ContentExpress&func=display&ceid=18

This introductory hands-on four-day workshop is a must for any educator who wants to explore genomics through the use of biotechnology and genomics activities for the classroom. The workshop timeline will take participants from the initial extraction of DNA, through the Central Dogma of biology, ending with protein structure analysis. Introduced will be basic techniques for DNA extraction, DNA sequencing and proteomics studies. Additional hands-on lab sessions will include PCR, DNA Contigs, gene cloning, protein purification, and protein crystallization. Complimenting the program will be an introduction to BLAST, iDNA and other interactive, protein visualization software programs available for educators. Interspersed in this comprehensive educator training will be a field trip to an area research institute.

http://education.sdsc.edu/teachertech

NCAR/CISL is sponsoring a high-definition web conferencing site for the "PetaScale Programming Environments and Tools" virtual summer school, a week-long high-performance computing workshop for graduate students in computation-related sciences.The workshop will be given from Tuesday, July 6 through Friday, July 9, 2010, at the NCAR Mesa Laboratory in Boulder, Colorado. Participation is limited to 20 students from the Rocky Mountain region. Cost is $100. Online-only participation is also available free.

http://www.vscse.org/news/apply_summer2010.html

Matlab is an easy-to-use yet extremely powerful "matrix laboratory", an interactive environment that supports a wide range of mathematical functions, analytical methods, and visualization tools for practically any kind of science problem, enabling you to solve computationally intensive problems faster than with traditional languages. In this workshop, you will get a hands-on introduction to the basics of Matlab's vector math and its scripting language. In this two-day workshop, you will get an introduction to the Matlab interface, matrix mathematics, and 2D plotting the first day. On the second day, you will learn the simple math and complex beauty of fractal geometry, and you will even learn how to use some of Matlab's advanced 3D visualization tools. You will also get a bit of background on other programs similar to Matlab. All Matlab example files will be provided online and available during and following the workshop. Presented by Jeff Sale, San Diego Supercomputer Center, UC San Diego Course open to middle and high school students.

http://education.sdsc.edu/teachertech/index.php?module=ContentExpress&func=display&ceid=18

Modeling Instruction in High School Physics is grounded on the thesis that scientific activity is centered on modeling: the construction, validation, and application of conceptual models to understand and organize the physical world. In this three-day, eighteen-hour introductory workshop, teachers learn to: • organize course content around a small set of basic models as the content core of physics; • engage students collaboratively in making and using models to describe, explain, predict, design, and control physical phenomena; • involve students in using computers as scientific tools for collecting, organizing, analyzing, visualizing, and modeling real data; • lots more!

http://modeling.asu.edu/

The workshop series will begin with basic introductory level activities and build on to more advanced topics both in content and equipment requirements. We will cover the basic use and applications of the equipment used. Be one step ahead for your high school biology and chemistry courses!

http://education.sdsc.edu/teachertech/index.php?module=ContentExpress&func=display&ceid=18

Have you ever wondered how they keep all those colors in the lines? Comic coloring is a incredibly useful skill the techniques of which can be applied to digital illustration and graphic design in endless ways to give artists and designers incredible control of color, composition and overall presentation. Students will be exposed to many of the basic techniques and common approaches to digital art and design, including the familiar skills of drawing, painting and composition as synthesized through the digital medium, but also silhouette and contour design, using abstraction in development, and using photographic reference and the basics of image sampling. Presented by Scott Flanders, Scott Flanders Art Course open to middle and high school students.

http://education.sdsc.edu/teachertech/index.php?module=ContentExpress&func=display&ceid=18

The 2010 UPCRC Illinois Summer School offers experienced programmers, with little or no exposure to parallelism, an opportunity to learn about multicore programming.

http://www.upcrc.illinois.edu/summer/2010/index.html

This workshop touches both technological aspects such as infrastructure design, data analysis and fusion, decision support algorithms, as well as financing aspects for u-healthcare. It aims to gather together care-givers, IT experts, industry, and national authorities contributing towards the development and application of u-healthcare system.

http://infonet.cse.kyutech.ac.jp/conf/saint10/workshop-CFPaper/ws-cfp-10.html

The Institute will provide researchers with an intensive introduction to using TACC’s computing resources. Senior TACC staff will deliver presentations and lead interactive lab sessions focused on using TACC’s advanced computing resources and technology.

http://www.tacc.utexas.edu/summer-institute/

In this fun and exciting three-day hands-on workshop, students will learn to build cool 2D and 3D interactive animations. On the first day, you'll learn how to use Flash, the powerful 2D animation tool and the most popular tool on the Internet. On the second day you'll learn Blender, the free 3D animation and rendering tool used by many game developers. On the third day, students will get some real hands-on game development experience using the built-in Blender Game Engine. Students will each get their own account on the StudentTECH course site where they can upload and share their games and animations with others. Students will be provided with all source files used in this workshop, too! Presented by Jeff Sale, San Diego Supercomputer Center, UC San Diego Course open to middle and high school students.

http://education.sdsc.edu/teachertech/index.php?module=ContentExpress&func=display&ceid=18

Open Science Grid (OSG) Summer School, a hands-on four-day program in distributed computing for graduate students. This summer program is July 19-22 at the university of Wisconsin-Madison. Accepted applicants will receive funding to cover expenses and free registration for the TG'10 conference.

https://twiki.grid.iu.edu/bin/view/Education/OSGSummerSchool2010

The National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) Computational and Information Systems Laboratory (CISL) will present a 1-day course introducing the concepts of the Fortran 90 programming language. The class will be given on Monday, July 19, 2010, at the UCAR Corporate Training Center in Boulder, Colorado. Participation is limited to 16 persons.

http://www.cisl.ucar.edu/tcg/F90COURSE/syllabus.summer10.html

NCL workshops are tailored to researchers in the earth sciences who are interesting in learning how to use NCL to analyze their data. This is an intensive 3.5-day training course scheduled for July 20-23, 2010. The workshops are taught by both a scientist and a software engineer, and offer a combination of introductory lectures and hands-on labs. During the labs, the instructors work with students to help them write NCL programs for analyzing their own data. Lecture topics include an overview of NCL language basics, an introduction to NetCDF and other data formats, and detailed information on data analysis and visualization with NCL.

http://www.ncl.ucar.edu/Training/Workshops/

In this fun, exciting hands-on workshop, students will learn basic camera functions to make eye catching photos and then take them to a new level in Photoshop, with the use of special techniques. Though we will learn about interesting technical tools, this class is ant art photography class and will focus on the creating powerful self portraits, portraits, or images based on your dreams . Experimentation, in any form, is encouraged. This course requires the use of a DSLR. A digital Point-and-Shoot camera is also acceptable. Please be familiar with the use of your camera. You will also need a USB thumb drive, which allows you to save any assignments in progress (or completed) during the class. Presented by Rebecca Webb, ArtPower, UC San Diego Course open to middle and high school students.

http://education.sdsc.edu/teachertech/index.php?module=ContentExpress&func=display&ceid=18

Training for users who are new to TeraGrid will be provided on Friday, July 23, from 1-3pm Eastern (12-2pm Central, 10am-noon Pacific).

The session will be delivered using ReadyTalk web-based teleconferencing, and include hands-on opportunities. The following topics will be covered:

• Portal Overview
• TeraGrid Knowledge Base
• Accessing Resources
• File Transfers
• Ticket System
• Softenv & Modules
• Security
• Next Steps

If you are interested in participating, please send email to training@teragrid.org by close of business on Wednesday, before the session. We will send out email to respondents with instructions on how to join the telecon. You will need to have your TeraGrid portal account information available to fully participate in the session.

Note that this is a free session; there is no charge for ReadyTalk connections for participants. More information about this tool is available online at www.readytalk.com.

This course will provide an introduction to using Maya to create computer animations. Students will be given a comprehensive introduction to the various components of the Maya software package; including Modeling, Animation, Rendering, and Lighting.

http://education.sdsc.edu/teachertech/index.php?module=ContentExpress&func=display&ceid=18

High Performance Software Tools to Fast-Track The Development of Scalable and Sustainable Applications

http://acts.nersc.gov/events/Workshop2010